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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0149 Monday, 30 March 2009 From: Lynn Brenner <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Sunday, 29 Mar 2009 10:46:21 EDT Subject: "An Age of Kings" Released at Last! This wonderful 1961 BBC series -- the history plays from Richard II through Richard III, with a cast that includes Robert Hardy, Judi Dench, and a pre-Bond Sean Connery as Hotspur -- is finally available on DVD. Here's the link to the New York Times story about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/television/29hobe.html?scp=1&sq=%22an%20age%20of%20kings%22&st=cse _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0148 Monday, 30 March 2009 [1] From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Mar 2009 09:24:01 -0500 Subj: Re: SHK 20.0142 50 Best American Plays [2] From: Mari Bonomi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Mar 2009 10:52:11 -0400 Subj: Re: SHK 20.0142 50 Best American Plays [1]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Mar 2009 09:24:01 -0500 Subject: 20.0142 50 Best American Plays Comment: Re: SHK 20.0142 50 Best American Plays Just so we don't get lost, you might remind us by way of some sort of list of the plays you consider "world class." [2]----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mari Bonomi <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Mar 2009 10:52:11 -0400 Subject: 20.0142 50 Best American Plays Comment: Re: SHK 20.0142 50 Best American Plays To Bob Grumman - Perhaps you do not find the drama inherent in family to be as significant as drama about kings and princes. That is a judgment that each of us makes. For me, the power of the family drama resonates with the drama of kings and nations, which in many ways are simply family writ large. Long Day's Journey Into Night (to choose just one example) could easily be read as metaphor for what is going on in the world today. And unless you believe that the only purpose of drama is to make political observations, you can, if you attend it with a mind not already barred by the "it can't be any good it's by an American and all about family" prejudice, find characters as moving and engaging as any in Shakespeare's drama. I would argue that the same is true of many other outstanding American dramas. I've read them, seen them, taught them. They *speak* - to their audiences, to the world. They are "plebeian" in the status of their characters, perhaps, but they are far from plebeian in their quality as drama, as story, as metaphor. Simply because the heroes of American plays do not meet the Aristotelian conception of "nobility" (being kings and queens of their families rather than their nations), they are not robbed of the potential to be "great" men/women. Oh . . . I did mean to ask the nay-sayers... where does Ibsen with his problem plays fit in your scale of "Greatness" of drama? What about Cyrano? Moliere's creations? Or are the only "great" plays those written by that fellow from Stratford-upon-Avon? Mari Bonomi _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0147 Monday, 30 March 2009 From: Matthew Henerson <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Friday, 27 Mar 2009 11:26:22 -0700 Subject: Bernard Shaw and "All's Well" Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm doing a little unofficial dramaturgy for a friend who is directing All's Well this summer at a local festival. In my preliminary research, I'm finding Shaw quoted quite a bit, most often in letters. Does anybody know if he wrote at length on the play, and if so, in what context? Many thanks, Matt Henerson _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0146 Monday, 30 March 2009 From: Patrick Lonergan <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 12:00:49 -0000 Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Shakespeare in Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Shakespearean Performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660-1900 Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway A vacancy exists for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a research project on Shakespeare and Ireland, which is funded by The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS). This project will create a record of performances of Shakespeare's plays in Dublin and Belfast, from the Restoration to the foundation of the Abbey Theatre. The successful candidate will carry out research on Shakespearean performance in Dublin and Belfast, 1660-1900, and will undertake other related tasks. Candidates should have been awarded the degree of PhD on or before August 2009. Proven expertise in at least two of the following areas is desirable for the position: . Irish theatre history . Shakespeare in performance . Archival research . Critical editing . Web-authoring and design The postdoctoral researcher will be paid ?31,745 per annum. Provision will be made for some travel and research expenses, subject to terms and conditions. The researcher will be expected to participate in and contribute fully to the activities of NUI Galway on a full-time basis during the course of their funding. The post is tenable for one year. START DATE 1st September 2009 APPLICATION To apply, please send a letter of application (outlining your qualifications for the position), an academic CV, two academic references, and a writing sample to Dr Patrick Lonergan. Applications and references may be sent via e-mail toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Postal applications may be sent to Dr. Patrick Lonergan, English, School of Humanities, NUI Galway, Ireland. For informal enquiries about this post please contact Dr. Patrick Lonergan via e-mail or by phone at + 353 91 49 5609 Closing date for receipt of applications is 5 pm on Monday 4th May 2009. National University of Ireland, Galway is an equal opportunity employer. Further information about this post is available on www.nuigalway.ie/vacancies Dr Patrick Lonergan Room 301, Tower Block 1 English Department NUI Galway IrelandThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0145 Monday, 30 March 2009 From: Hardy M. Cook <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > Date: Monday, March 30, 2009 Subject: The PROBE Command Explanation Dear SHAKSPERean, With the date for signing my retirement papers looming, I am, of necessity, reassessing aspects of my life, especially those with financial implications. One such involves what I pay for my Listserv license. Without further explanation, I am about to be attempting to include a PROBE command in the listserv header. What this means is that you will be require once a year to affirm by replying to a message you receive from listserv that you still wish to continue to subscribe to this listserv. The purpose for including this command is that it will enable me to "prune out" members who have been listed with the NOMAIL options but who are no longer interested in being continued on the membership list or whose email account no longer exists. I hope that you will not mind having to take a few moments every year to acknowledge that you wish to continue to be a subscriber to this list. My apologies if you do mind; if this is the case, you need do nothing and you will be removed from the membership list. Hardy M. Cook Editor _______________________________________________________________ S H A K S P E R: The Global Shakespeare Discussion List Hardy M. Cook,This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The S H A K S P E R Web Site <http://www.shaksper.net> DISCLAIMER: Although SHAKSPER is a moderated discussion list, the opinions expressed on it are the sole property of the poster, and the editor assumes no responsibility for them.